Christmas cake stall - any tips for a first timer?

[Albertsmum]

I have found myself volunteering to do the cake stall with another Mum at our local school fete this Christmas but given that I am new to all this (DS1 has just started pre-school there) my inital flush of comedy excitment has worn off and I am starting to panic!

Does anyone out there have any tips for the top on things that always sell well / things that don't and what price you could sell it for?

small cakes eg fairy cakes always sell very well ime.

Don't make ginger cake or anything else brown that's not chocolate else people gte confused.
Small cakes or traybakes sliced up into squares sell better than round cakes cut into wedges.

Albertsmum (is yr DS Albert then? great name!) it depends if you are welling things to eat there and then or to take home for tea (ie is it next to the teas and coffee stall?)
If the former, fairy cakes with decorations always sell well, we do 20p-25p each (or 10p if very small). Choc brownies etc I find not worth is as cost so much to make. Choc crispie cakes are good tho. Also a big cake cut into slices, traybakes eg sponge with coffee icing on etc.
If you are selling to take away, a plain Victoria sandwich is always popular, would sell for £2-£2.50. Ditto things like coffee cake etc.

I find home-made biscuits and scones don?t do so well. Also fruit cakes are not really worth it IMHO as the ingredients cost so much.

I shoudld add that these are provincial prices. At my sister?s school in London they charges a lot more!

Local favourites always go down well - around here we always sell out of welsh cakes before anything else.
If you want to sell to older children who may be at the fete with their own money, cakes with novelty value (brownies deocrated to look like dominoes) or decorated with small sweets like jelly tots go quickly.
Make small labels to explain what they are, as it very boring to say it repeatedly.
Good Luck

Thanks for the tips. Yes Albert is DS1's name. Different but not too wierd, I hope. Couldn't manage to persuade DH to go for Walter for DS2 so he is George

Oooh Albertsmum I love Walter too but DH wasn't having it either. Albert is too much like DS1's name but I love it.

George is good too tho.